The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-12
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

ahead of his ticket. Local option was de-
feated in Louisville. The Legislature win
be largely Democratic, as usual.
A. w. WILKINS, editor Of the Whitehall
IN. W Tunes, and president Of the New
York Press Association, died on the I'd,
after an illness Of only few hours.
CARUTHERs, the st. Louis base ball
pitcher, was reported very i'll at the Cont
mental Hotel, Philadelphia, on the night Of
The I'd. He was to be taken to his home in
Chicago by professional nurse engaged
hy President Won der Abe to take care of
him.
PRESENT indications are regarded as less
favorable for Turkey insisting upon Ferdi-
hand assuming the rulership of Bulgaria.
ANoTHER disorderly incident" oc-
curred in the British House Of Commons on
the 2d, in which Mr.. Dillon figured
against a quartette of Tories and the
speaker. Accusations of falsehood were
freely made.
GENERAL PHIL SHERIDAN has written
that he viii attend the reunion of the
Army Of the Tennessee in Detroit, Mich.
September "a and Is. The original idea of
having a prize drill of the crack companies
Of the country have been abandoned.
EMIN BEY, the African explorer, wrote
from Wadelai, under date Of February 10,
1851, that his prospects were hopeful, and
that he was about to start for the Kabare-
gas country.
Mrs. CLEVELAND is said to be taking a
gold deal of interest in the Vailed Prophets
ball at st. Louis in October.
OK the 3D. George W. Nellis, Jr., arrived
IN San Francisco from New York, having
made the trip on a bicycle. He started
May -, lost fifteen days by rough weather,
and lost twenty-three pounds in weight.
II g averaged fifty miles a day. He made
the trip in the interest Of sporting newspa-
pcrs.
DURING a portion of next month Colonel
S. J. Tilden, of Columbia County, N. Y,
will entertain President Cleveland and
wife.
TIE President, IL is stated, will be en-
tertained for a day or two the latter part
of this month at the Democratic clubhouse,
ON Slide mountain, in the Catskills. The
club mon are Judge Alton B. Parker, Judge
Maynard, Public Printer Benedict, and
score or more of other prominent Demo
Gratis.
ROBERT GREENE, of Stone City, Ia,
lnboring under the delusiOn that some one
was following him with malicious intent,
asked to be placed in a cell at the station
house at Cedar Rapids on the night of the
I'd. He was accordingly locked up. At
five o'clock on the morning OF the Sd he shot
his brains ont while in a cell He was
widower aud about forty years Of age.
On the Cd DR.. ID. Z. Salmon, chief Of the
Bureau Of Animal Industry, left Washing
ton for Delaware and Ulster counties, N.
", 70 personally investigate the outbreak
Of contagious pleuro-pneumonia among
cattle in those counties, and direct the
work of its suppression.
PATRICK O'BRIEN, member OF the British
Parliament from North Monaghan, has
sgniHed his intention to interrogate AR.
Boltour, Chief Secretary for Ireland. as to
the reasons for placing BIr. Patrick A
Collins. Of Boston, under the surveillance
of detectives, and will direct his inquiries
TO ascertaiuing whether the government
is responsible for the outrage.
on the 81 George Bidwell, the noted
torgcr, was arrested in New York, by or
dor Of Inspector Byrnes, he was landed
from a European steamer. Bidwell was
recently pardoned by the British Govern
men6 ON account of ill-health, having
served fourteen years in Dartmoor prison.
tie was subsequently released by Judge
Duffy
HENRY NJ. STANLEY has boen heard
from alive and we'll
THE Virginia State Democratic conven-
tiop was held on the 4th at Roanoke.
OS the 3d DIR. Mckenzie performed an
other operation on the throat of the Ger
man Grown Prince. He has advised the
Prince to soiourn for awhile in Scotland.
Mr.. LAURIER, the new Liberal leader in
Canada, is credited with desiring more
conciliatory policy toward the United
States.
On the 4th Hon. Allen Francis, United
States Consul at st. Thomas, Ont, died
from injuries received by being run over
by a hose carriage during the recent rail-
way accident aud resulting fire.
A MEETING of Liberal-Unionistsw was held
i'm London on the 4th to devise means for
n 3. .Ns-k
at elections TO fill parliamentary va
canCies.
JUDGE CRAIG. Of the Illinois Supreme
Court, denies the report that he has stated
that the court would refuse the condemned
Chicago Anarchists a new trial.
THE press of New York City almost
unanimously agree with George William
Curtis, speech that the Democrats arc run,
ming the National Administration.
PROHIBITION was defeated by an over
whelming vote in the Texas election on the
ith. The returns SO far are meager, bat
are mostly one way.
LEROY ID. Brown, late Superintendent
OF Public Instruction Of Ohio, has beer
elected president of the state University
Of Nevada, at a salary Of $1,000 q year and
travelling expenses. He is thirty-eight
years old and native of Ohio.
KING kAL.AKUA of Hawaii signed the
Ealakua OF monarchial powers, and leaves
only the power to draw salary and grant
pardons. premier Gibson escaped ON
bark sailing from Honolulu, and is now OF
his way 60 san Francisco.
LORD GEORGE DRUMMONn, grandson anC
hcir of the Earl OF Perth, died on the 0tl
at 81. Luke'S Hospital, New York, Of con
sumption. The deceased nCbleman becam,
nhenated from his family before he cam'
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his relatives disapproved. Hiis wife anc
children are left destitute.
A PROMINENT Chicago gentleman, on
pleasure trip, claims &c have met AcGar
isle in Quebec on the 5th. A man sup
posed to be McGOrigle, IL is said. took pas
sage ON that day on a sailing vessel bounC
FOR Gibraltar, passing himself OF as an in
vsAC, although it was we'll known that ht
was in perfect health.
a DUEL took place on the 9th below tn,
slaughter-house, in st. Bernard Parish, la.
between Mr.. Emile Revoire, one Of tn
editors Of L'Opi8ioE, and Larrieu, Jr.
president of the club dc la DemOcratiqu,
Frencais. The duel was fought viii
small swords AID the resuls of the comha
was that Mr.. Lu-rieu received a sligh
wound in the chest.
PARDAw WARSIEy. the celebrated Unior
spy of tho Shenandoah valley, is dead
He passed away at his home at Foste
Brook, n. ", ON the ID, aged sixty-sever
years.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The maio mousse and elevator OF Prinx &
Urlch, at Peoria, H., was destroyed b,
fire on the 2d, tine result, il is thought, o
spontaneous combustion. The building
was one Of ths oldest In the city. Loss
about $4,000; insured Tor $4,000.
llaE on the ID destroyed the cabin o
Phillip Little, situated i'm California gulch
opposite the American snelter az Lead
g.Iie Col The cabin contained two sleep